Speech Of Hon Henry C Burnett On The Subject Of National Politics PDF Download

Excerpt from Speech of Hon. H. C. Burnett, of Kentucky, on the Subject of National Politics: In the House of Representatives, July 28, 1856 On the 13th of December of the same year Mr. Wise, of Virginia, offered a series of reso lutions declaring against the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, the abolition of the inter State slave trade, and the reception of abolition petitions, affirming that the laws of Congress alone govern in the. Prescription of the mode of recovery of fugitive slaves; that Congress has no power to impose the abolition of slavery upon a State as a condition oi its admission into _the Union; that the citizens of a slave State have the right to take their slaves through airee State, that the general gove1 umest is constitutionally bound to protect them in such right; that the laws of the non slaveholding States in conflict with such right were null and void. The motion to suspend the rules for the introduction of these resolutions was lost; Mr. Fallmore voting adverse to the motion to suspend the rules, and against the South, along with Adams, Giddings, 55 (70. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.